Death visited our end of the valley on Saturday last, the 14th
at 7:20 am and took from our society and her loved ones, Sister Charlotte Tufts,
wife of Father Josiah Tufts, of Meadowville, Utah. The cause of death was sugar
diabetes. Deceased was native of England, having been born Colchester, March 7,
1833. She immigrated with her parents to Utah in 1854 and resided in Salt Lake
City until the spring of 1870. Then with her husband, who had been called to
settle Bear Lake valley and moved here in 1860, she cast her lot with our
earliest pioneers and endured the vicissitudes and trials incident with those
early times.

Sister Tufts was regarded by her neighbors and all that had
the privilege of her acquaintance, as a model wife, mother and neighbor and ever
true to the Gospel she had espoused in the days of her youth. She was the mother
of two sons and six daughters, two of her daughters preceded her to the great
beyond and all the living children are married. With the exception of Josiah Jr.
and wife, who are living in Canada, all her children and grandchildren were
present at the funeral. The services were at the family residence on Tuesday
afternoon and were presided over by Bishop Ira Nebeker. The Laketown choir
furnished appropriate music for the occasion. The prayer was offered by Bishop
Isaac T Price and Elders Joseph Gibbons, Joseph Irvin, Joshua Eldredge and
Bishop Nebeker spoke words of comfort to the bereaved family and friends.
Benediction was pronounced by Elder George Earley.

At the graveyard the choir sang "O My Father" and the
dedicatory prayer was offered by Joseph Irvin. A long line of vehicles filled
with relatives and near neighbors and a large number of people of Laketown and
Round Valley wards followed the remains to their last resting-place. Truly one
of Utahís and Bear Lakeís pioneers and the Lordís noble women has departed this
life but the remembrance of her well spent mortal career will ever be cherished
by her bereaved relatives, friends and neighbors. And it is beyond question that
she will be among the bright jewels counted by the Master at the day of his
coming.

The sympathy of the whole community is extended to the
sorrowing husband and his family in their bereavement.